To provide a more streamlined experience, JWP's updated captions editor will fully replace the legacy captions editor.

Deprecation

The legacy captions editor will be deprecated on 13 January 2025 and is no longer supported. Please use the updated editor in the JWP dashboard.

For more information, learn how to add and manage closed captions. 

We've made an API route name update and expedited the advertising workflow with JWP’s Broadcast Live to VOD workflow with SSAI.

New Features

• The list (GET /v2/sites/{site_id}/suggested_tags/) and create (POST /v2/sites/{site_id}/suggested_tags/) routes in the v2 Management API have been renamed to tags (List tags and Create a tag associated with a given site) to better fit their purposes as well as to better align the endpoint nomenclature with the other existing remove_tag and rename_tag routes.
  
  This change is reflected in both the routes and their response bodies. Please take this into account for any future interactions with these routes.
  
  
• SCTE-35 ad markers in SSAI enabled Broadcast Live streams are now extracted and saved when your live stream is converted to VOD media. Maintain these ad cue points or edit them further on the media-level.
• The original advertising segments in your Broadcast Live stream are now automatically stripped out when the live stream is converted to VOD media. Allowing for seamless new server side ads to be scheduled in the VOD stream leveraging the same ad cue points that have been preserved. 

New Features

The following releases simplify your content type management:

• Download content types for distribution to other accounts or properties
• Edit content types using the dashboard's JSON editor 

Older default audio track metadata can be edited.

New Feature

You can now edit the default audio track of older, previously uploaded media in the dashboard and via the v2 Management API.

This feature relates to alternate audio track enhancements and streamlined tracks management features that have already been released.

You can now permanently delete and recreate tags through the API.

New Feature

The bulk remove tags endpoint now hard deletes tags:

• Deletes the tags
• Removes them from all associated media and playlist resources
• Prevents deleted tags from being suggested in the dashboard

This improved functionality allows for tag recreation with different letter casing.

All JW Platform accounts now include the v2 Uploads entitlement by default, allowing you to smoothly handle large video files. 

Additionally, you can now upload and manage your SRT track files more effectively. 

New Feature

All accounts now leverage v2 uploads in the dashboard, increasing the maximum dashboard upload size to 100 GB.

Bug Fixes

• Track times persist after editing SRT track files in the Captions Editor 
• SRT track files with the correct timecode format appear when uploaded 

The JWP dashboard now offers more playlist filtering and sorting options to simplify your content management. 

New Feature

On the Playlists page, you can quickly locate playlists using JWP's new filter and sorting options:

• Created Date. Sort your list of playlists by date of creation. 
  
• Custom Parameters. Filter your list to include only playlists that contain a specific custom parameter. Currently, you can only filter playlists by one custom parameter. 

JWP has removed the MRSS video URL parameter from import and output feeds.

Bug Fix

To enhance your feed security, the mrss_video_url parameter will no longer be added to imported MRSS feeds and will not appear in MRSS or JSON output feeds containing new imports.

To keep this parameter in future feed imports or to remove it from previous imports, contact JW Support.

JWP is removing the MRSS video URL parameter from import and output feeds.

Deprecation

As of 5 March 2024, the mrss_video_url parameter will no longer be added to imported MRSS feeds and will not appear in MRSS or JSON output feeds containing new imports.

To keep this parameter in future feed imports or to remove it from previous imports, contact JW Support.

There are now more management options for your primary and alternate audio tracks, making it easier to deliver accessible content tailored to your audience’s needs.

New Features 

• Upload alternate audio tracks for DRM-protected media.
• Edit the names, language, and ISO language codes of default audio tracks for both DRM and non-DRM media using the v2 Management API.
  
  NOTE: Currently, these editing options are only available for newly uploaded media. JWP will soon enable you to edit names, language, and ISO language codes for older default audio tracks.